Affiliation:
1. Honeywell Information Systems, Inc., McLean, VA
Abstract
The rapidly evolving field of local network technology has
produced a steady stream of local network products in recent years.
The IEEE 802 standards that are now taking shape, because of their
complexity, do little to narrow the range of alternative technical
approaches and at the same time encourage more vendors into the
field. The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic,
organized overview of the alternative architectures for and design
approaches to local networks.
The key elements that determine the cost and performance of a
local network are its topology, transmission medium, and medium
access control protocol. Transmission media include twisted pair,
baseband and broadband coaxial cable, and optical fiber. Topologies
include bus, tree, and ring. Medium access control protocols
include CSMA/CD, token bus, token ring, register insertion, and
slotted ring. Each of these areas is examined in detail,
comparisons are drawn between competing technologies, and the
current status of standards is reported.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
General Computer Science,Theoretical Computer Science
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